Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students/OH-WY
See the discussion page for instructions on adding schools to this list and for an alphabetically arranged listing of schools. Due to the damage by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding, a number of colleges and universities in the New Orleans metropolitan area will not be able to hold classes for the fall 2005 semester. It […]
Continue Reading...Che Guevara’s ”Motorcycle Diaries” companion dies
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Alberto Granado Jiménez, the Argentinian biochemist who was Che Guevara’s companion on his transformative motorcycle trip through South America, died in Havana on Saturday, reported Cuban state television. He was 88 and died of natural causes. The politically active Jiménez met Ernesto “Che” Guevara, then a medical student, in Hernando, Argentina […]
Continue Reading...Wikinews Shorts: March 7, 2007
A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, March 7, 2007. The European Union has banned the 35 planes in the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) 45 aircraft fleet from flying in EU airspace. The reason provided by EU was that these plans do not fulfill the safety requirement for international planes and thus were banned. PIA […]
Continue Reading...When To Call On The Professional Foundation Contractors In Pensacola
Get More Information Here: Stainless Steel Tanks byAlma Abell On average, a new home will take approximately five to eight years to settle. This means that all the creaks and cracks that you start to hear when it is quiet or possibly see in the walls above joists are normal but you need to be […]
Continue Reading...Police investigate new lead in ‘Chili Finger’ case; Ayala abandons lawsuit
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 San Jose, California police are investigating a new lead in the Wendy’s “Chili Finger” case. The San Jose Mercury News is reporting a spotted leopard tore off part of a finger from an owner of exotic animals, Sandy Allman, in Pahrump, Nevada. The portion of Allman’s torn off finger was approximately […]
Continue Reading...High Quality Of Prostate Cancer Treatments In India At Affordable Costs
High Quality of Prostate Cancer Treatments in India at Affordable Costs by SophiAccording to healthcare experts, almost 40 percent of Nigerian men about 40 years of age are living with prostate cancer. While many are still unaware of the disease, prostate cancer has killed many in Nigeria due to factors including ignorance, poor knowledge, awareness […]
Continue Reading...Car and train collide in Buffalo, New York
Friday, January 12, 2007 Buffalo, New York — Reports say that a subway train and a car have collided in downtown Buffalo, New York. Witnesses say that calls to 911 came in just before 12:00 p.m. [EST] that a car had driven onto the tracks of the Metro Rail operated by the Niagra Frontier Transit […]
Continue Reading...The New Ford Ka
Get More Information Here: Sinclair Ford The New Ford Ka by Susan Roberts The New Ford Car is marketed as small car with big ideas, fun-loving and spontaneous, the Ford Ka lives for the moment. Ford is particularly good at making cars that leave a grin on your face at the end of a journey. […]
Continue Reading...Oil prices drive new investment in clean technology
Monday, April 24, 2006 Investors are rushing to fund new ventures in renewable energy as Americans continue to see rising gasoline prices at the pump. The price for crude oil continues to rise to new record highs ($75 per barrel of crude oil on NYMEX as of Friday’s close). According to the results of a […]
Continue Reading...2010 Chile earthquakes: Government confirms 452 dead
Saturday, March 20, 2010 Chilean Government confirmed 452 deaths caused by the earthquake and tsunami that struck the central and south zones of Chile on February 27 and the Pichilemu earthquake on March 11. The official death toll was released yesterday by the Interior Undersecretary Rodrigo Ubilla. Ubilla explained that “after a rigorous work in […]
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